Azure Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 13 9
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure 40 63 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 8.05% 12.68% 12.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.57% 40.65% 39.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 48 48
10th Percentile £247 £204 £440
25th Percentile £350 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £538 £607 £700
90th Percentile £600 £640 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 140 155 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 28.17% 31.19% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 106 114
10th Percentile £264 £210 £413
25th Percentile £400 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £551
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -8.11% +4.89%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £650
90th Percentile £650 £631 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £485 £525
% change year-on-year -2.06% -7.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £15.60 -
25th Percentile - £18.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.50% +17.27%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £15.00 £32.76
% change year-on-year +119.73% -54.21% +71.58%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -6 39 £449 -11.54% 118
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
1 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (60.00%) AWS
2 22 (55.00%) GCP
3 15 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 14 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (22.50%) SaaS
6 8 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (20.00%) Azure AKS
6 8 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (17.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (12.50%) GitHub
9 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
10 1 (2.50%) CloudBees
10 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
10 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (5.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) 4G
3 1 (2.50%) Broadband
3 1 (2.50%) ISDN
3 1 (2.50%) LAN
3 1 (2.50%) MPLS
3 1 (2.50%) NAS
3 1 (2.50%) PSTN
3 1 (2.50%) SAN
3 1 (2.50%) SSH
3 1 (2.50%) WAN
3 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.00%) TestRail
4 2 (5.00%) JMeter
4 2 (5.00%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Analyst
2 9 (22.50%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 4 (10.00%) IT Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) IT Support
4 4 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) QA Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Administrator
5 2 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Performance Tester
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Senior QA Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) SAML
2 8 (20.00%) OAuth
2 8 (20.00%) OpenID
3 7 (17.50%) JSON
4 6 (15.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.50%) .NET
5 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.50%) Kafka
5 1 (2.50%) LDAP
5 1 (2.50%) Middleware
5 1 (2.50%) PySpark
5 1 (2.50%) RESTful
5 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) CCTV
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.50%) SCADA
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.50%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Linux
1 5 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Android
2 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) AIX
3 1 (2.50%) Solaris
3 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) DevOps
2 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (27.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
4 10 (25.00%) Migration
4 10 (25.00%) RBAC
5 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
5 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (20.00%) Identity Management
6 8 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 7 (17.50%) Agile
7 7 (17.50%) Privileged Identity Management
8 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 4 (10.00%) ETL
10 3 (7.50%) B2B
10 3 (7.50%) ERP
10 3 (7.50%) ITIL
10 3 (7.50%) Performance Testing
10 3 (7.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (5.00%) ActionScript
3 2 (5.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) Bicep
4 1 (2.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) Groovy
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.50%) Korn
4 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.00%) IBM Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) CISM
3 1 (2.50%) CISSP
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.50%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) Ansible
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.50%) Nagios
5 1 (2.50%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (2.50%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.50%) SCOM
5 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Alibaba
3 4 (10.00%) Databricks
3 4 (10.00%) IBM
4 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.50%) BMC
6 1 (2.50%) Centrify
6 1 (2.50%) Citrix
6 1 (2.50%) Commvault
6 1 (2.50%) Confluent
6 1 (2.50%) Dell
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) HP
6 1 (2.50%) NetApp
6 1 (2.50%) Splunk
6 1 (2.50%) Thycotic
6 1 (2.50%) Toshiba
6 1 (2.50%) Veritas